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Vox Signs on to Join Apple's News Subscription Service for Future Paid Tiers
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They're actually a bad example. A very bad example. The site is nothing but confirmation bias.
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One interesting thing is that it could potentially help the state of media today. Rather than relying on clickbait maybe they could focus on making something so good people are willing to pay for it.
The more I think about the virtues of a news/magazine app, the more I resent it. A hub for online content is appealing. However, the same result could be achieved within a browser as an rsc feed for paid subscriptions. This doesn't need Apple as a middleman, lining it's pockets at the expense of content makers who struggle already. Apple can still benefit if readers use Apple Pay to pay for subs.
Granted, the real appeal is the idea of all-you-can-binge content. Sad that the same people who defend Apple's right to profit don't feel the same about other businesses.
Granted, the real appeal is the idea of all-you-can-binge content. Sad that the same people who defend Apple's right to profit don't feel the same about other businesses.
Vox really is garbage, especially their "future perfect" series. Why anyone would want to pay to read about why the Rockerfellers think it's a great idea to dumb everyone down via lithium in the water is beyond me.
That's being demeaning to trash.
Vox is nothing but fake news bloggers. It’s not Journalism. Why would anyone pay for that?
Because I like reading and anything decent has a paywall after three articles. Wall Street Journal doesn’t even let you read most of their stuff at all. It’s the price of three Starbucks drinks per month. Didn’t know staying informed was a waste of money...
yet not informed on adblockers or adblocker-blockers or that paywalled articles can be found elsewhere with a simple google search because so much of the media just regurgitates itself if not outright clones it verbatim.
i'd take the coffee and stay informed
I wonder if Apple would allow an equally conservative "news source" to balance things out with Vox's bias./s Somehow I doubt it. 
Exactly what we don't need.... yet another silly-valley "curated"(biased) news service with the same political bias as every other silly-valley platform (Google, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) IMHO
Remember when big business controlling the media/news was considered a bad thing? Apparently it's a-ok now that they have the right kind of bias.
I'm sure the market can decide whether or not it is worth it.
Exactly what we don't need.... yet another silly-valley "curated"(biased) news service with the same political bias as every other silly-valley platform (Google, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) IMHO
Remember when big business controlling the media/news was considered a bad thing? Apparently it's a-ok now that they have the right kind of bias.
I'm sure the market can decide whether or not it is worth it.
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3 cups of coffee here 5 cups of coffee there. We’re ending up spending half of our income on coffee.
I wonder if Apple would allow an equally conservative "news source" to balance things out with Vox's bias./s Somehow I doubt it.
Exactly what we don't need.... yet another silly-valley "curated"(biased) news service with the same political bias as every other silly-valley platform (Google, FaceBook, Twitter, etc) IMHO
But i'm sure the market can decide whether or not it is worth it.
doubt it
its hard to find something as far right as vox is left, most right-leaning news sites are mostly center-right.
to go much farther right its a fringe site usually only accessible by tor
its what happens when 90% of news is left and they are apologists for each other whether its center-left to the radical authoritarian left.
I read Vox semi regularly but I'm not sure if I'm willing to pay for their content. So many free stuff out there people will just switch if Vox puts up a paywall, they better come up with some interesting exclusives to make it worth it.
Here's some news... Vox is a pathetic organization. Well... I doubt that's news to many.
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To the mods... posts like this are why we need a thumbs down button.
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To the mods... posts like this are why we need a thumbs down button.
Ugh, I just personally hate reading through cesspools of nonsense, but I guess that's just me.
Yes, right up there with lattes and video games. I don't buy either.
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Those are good, and I also like Time. IDK if I'd pay for them, but I know I wouldn't pay for second-rate ones like Vox.
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Vox is "explainer" journalism. It's not "just facts." The people who like Vox like it because it confirms their personal narrative and beliefs.
When bloggers start "explaining" or lecturing, they cease being journalists and start shifting over to being columnists and opinion writers.
Personally, narrative building is not my bag, whether from the left or the right. I'll figure it out on my own.
Right, it’s all just horrible, everything is bad.
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That worked years ago. Since then they’ve locked their sites down more.
Same here!
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It's a "Fake News" web site.
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Reading Vox=Staying Informed?? lol
I'm perfectly capable of reading an "explanation" in a WSJ column about how off base the left is on this that or the other thing, and at the same time catching up with elsewhere-verifiable facts I hadn't made time to absorb elsewhere in the meantime. Likewise with whatever "explainers" Vox has on offer. That Vox leans left and that everyone knows that (or most who ever heard of Vox know it) does not mean that Vox is the only 'splainer out there.
Every regular columnist in mainstream media is also an explainer. That doesn't mean I read them all and/or take their narrative as gospel. There's a right winger in my local paper whose stuff I quit reading after dutifully skimming through it for about ten weeks. That was long enough to realize a) my local paper doesn't fact check columnists and b) he makes **** up. I am sure I could find left winger columnists behaving similarly in papers a bit further afield from here, say over in the Hudson Valley where the demographic mix might lean leftier.
Bottom line when I run into an assertion of fact that I might find surprising... I have options to check it elsewhere these days with a couple clicks of a trackpad, no matter where I ran into the alleged fact.
Anything that boils down to "X said Y" or "X did Y" is an assertion of fact.
Anything that parenthetically or otherwise adds color regarding the "why" and sometimes the "how/when" is something that can be checked elsewhere.
I like Vox. As I said earlier it will be interesting to see their premium tier roll out. I hope they give a few non-paywalled articles to help market the thing though. Most people including myself are not going to pay for what was free without a preview of differences in a new tier at a site with a known lean in its historical presentations.
Sometimes I want an explanation because things are too complicated. I can get multiple explanations from sources with different opinions. You can't honestly say, unless you're a lawyer, that you understand all the literature in the larger US laws being passed, nor does anyone have comprehensive knowledge of the Syria civil war.
That being said, I'd never pay for Vox. It's free now. They're not something sought-after like WSJ or Time. And generally, I don't pay for things that I used to have for free